Trump, Jimmy Kimmel and Disney
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Jimmy Kimmel's tenure as a late-night host on ABC is hanging by a thread after a 22-year run at the Disney-owned network, but the involuntary hiatus isn't the first time the House of Mouse unceremoniously pulled the plug on a star for saying something it didn't like.
This is, of course, much nicer language than Disney used for Carano during the lawsuit, when it accused her of making online statements that “grotesquely trivialized the Holocaust,” and argued that being forced to filter its ideas and scripts through an actor with her stated views would curtail its own freedom of expression.
Disney entered into an agreement with Webtoon Entertainment to create an all-new digital comics platform. Disney also will acquire a 2% stake in Webtoon.
The Walt Disney Company is quite well-renowned for creating some of the greatest films of all time, with every decade or so for the last 100 years featuring an all-time classic or two. But that does not mean that they have not made a dozen or so stinkers ...